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teiid

teiid adjective: of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

teiid: of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards
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Adjective

teiid (not comparable)

  1. Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

Noun

teiid (plural teiids)

  1. Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
    • The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, published 2006, page 195
    • As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, “9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode”, in Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles...

Forms of teiid

pluralteiids

Words formed from teiid

Questions about teiid

What does teiid mean?
Teiid means of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
What part of speech is teiid?
Teiid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near teiid in the dictionary

  1. teiglech
  2. Teign
  3. Teignbridge
  4. Teigngrace
  5. Teignmouth
  6. teiid
  7. teiids
  8. teikaside
  9. teikei
  10. teil
  11. Teilhardian

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